Jake Paltrow’s Adolf Eichmann Drama ‘June Zero’ Set For Theatrical Release By Cohen Media Group
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: June Zero, the latest from writer-director Jake Paltrow (Young Ones, The Good Night, De Palma) and producers Oren Moverman (The Messenger, Bad Education), Miranda Bailey (Swiss Army Man, The Diary of a Teenage Girl) and David Silber (Incitement, Junction 48), is set for theatrical release in New York on June 28, Los Angeles July 5 and nationwide July 12 by Cohen Media Group.
The film had its U.S. premiere at Film at Lincoln Center’s New York Jewish Film Festival and was an official selection at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (see Deadline review) a well as the Deauville American Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, Miami Jewish Film Festival, JxJ Washington Jewish Film Festival and others.
It’s set around the trial, verdict and 1962 execution of Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of the Holocaust, revisited by Paltrow in a new and surprising way.
Based on true accounts, June Zero is told from the unique perspectives of three distinct figures: Eichmann’s Jewish Moroccan prison guard, an Israeli police investigator who also happens to be a Holocaust survivor; and a precocious 13-year-old Libyan immigrant.
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